1909 in Ireland
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Events in 1909 in Ireland.
Events
- 31 October â The Royal University of Ireland was dissolved.
- 14 December â Ernest Shackleton delivered a lecture entitled Nearest the South Pole in the large hall of the National University in Dublin.
- 31 December â Harry Ferguson became the first person to fly an aircraft in Ireland, in a monoplane he designed and built himself.
- The Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast was officially recognised as a university teaching hospital.
- Fieldwork for the multidisciplinary Clare Island Survey commenced under the direction of Robert Lloyd Praeger.
Arts and literature
- 1 April â Lennox Robinson's first play, The Cross Roads, was performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin; he became the theatre manager later in the year.
- 22 July â Widowed Irish painter John Lavery married Irish American painter Hazel Martyn.
- 20 August â The tenor Enrico Caruso performed at the Theatre Royal in Dublin.
- 20 December â The first dedicated cinema in Ireland, the Volta Cinematograph, opened in Dublin under the management of writer James Joyce.[1]
- Herbert Hughes' collection of folk songs, Irish Country Songs, was published, including "She Moved Through the Fair" with words largely composed by Padraic Colum.
- Ella Young's first work of Irish folklore, The Coming of Lugh, was published.
Sport
Association football
- International
- Irish League
- Winners: Linfield F.C.
- Irish Cup
- Winners: Cliftonville F.C. 0â0 draw; replay result 2-1 Bohemian F.C.
Births
- 9 January â Patrick Peyton, priest who promoted the Rosary (died 1992).
- 16 January â Muriel Brandt, painter (died 1981 in Northern Ireland).
- 30 January â George Crothers, cricketer (died 1982 in Northern Ireland).
- 1 February â Timothy McAuliffe, Labour Party politician (died 1985).
- 8 March â Francis MacManus, novelist (died 1965).
- 3 April â Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (died 1976).
- 19 April â Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, cryptanalyst, chess player and chess writer (died 1974).
- 24 April â
- Robert Farren (Roibeárd à Faracháin), poet (died 1984).
- David Beers Quinn, historian (died 2002).[3]
- 30 April â F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (died 1992).
- 4 June â Robert Dudley Edwards, historian (died 1988).
- 7 July â Cecilia Thackaberry, Presentation Sisters nun, killed in Nigeria performing relief work (died 1969).
- 24 July â Geoffrey Bing, lawyer and Labour politician in UK (died 1977 in Northern Ireland).
- 31 July â Martin White, Kilkenny hurler (died 2011).
- 1 August â W. R. Rodgers, writer, broadcaster, teacher and Presbyterian minister (died 1969).
- 4 October â Paddy Moore, association football player (died 1951).
- 7 October â Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) (died 1976).
- 25 August â Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (died 1978).
- 20 October â James Patrick Scully, awarded George Cross for valour in 1941 in Liverpool in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building.
- 28 October â Francis Bacon, painter (died 1992).
- 4 November â Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (died 1982).
- 29 November â James Auchmuty, historian (died 1981).
- 6 December â Daniel A. McGovern, U.S. Army Air Forces photographer, documented atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (died 2005).
- Full date unknown
- Jack Stanley Gibson, surgeon and writer (died 2005).
- W. R. Rodgers, poet and writer (died 1969 in Northern Ireland).
Deaths
- 10 January â John Conness, United States Senator from California 1863â1869 (born 1821).
- 4 February â James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter, and composer (born 1837).
- 3 March â Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894â1909 (born 1840).
- 19 March â Charles Guilfoyle Doran, Clerk of Works at St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh (born 1835).
- 24 March â William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1839).
- 24 March â John Millington Synge, author and playwright (Hodgkin's disease).
- 4 April â Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (born 1833).
- 22 May â Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (born 1839).
- 3 June â Charlotte Grace O'Brien, political and social activist, writer, and plant collector (born 1845).
- 15 July â George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (born 1861).
- 1 December â William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (born 1824).